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...TRUE LETTER...should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind." So, in 1907, 25-year-old Virginia Stephen--soon to become Virginia Woolf--began her first long letter to Clive Bell, her new brother-in-law. Yet what follows is one of the most awkward, befuddled, pretentious things she ever wrote. Rather than simply telling him she has gotten a telegram, she writes...
...letter, from the newly published first volume of Woolf's massive correspondence (over 3800 letters exist) is a good example of the extent to which Virginia was secure in her literary abilities and insecure in her dealing with people. In these letters one might expect that she would use her skill to express herself more clearly, but, invariably, it is precisely herself that she chooses not to express. She circles all about it, speaking of what she's done, whom she's seen, where she's been; but as to how all this affects her, what she feels--at that...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee
...plays that belong in the durable realm of dramatic art seem to predate their creation. They exercise a strange primordial authority and inevitability. Virginia Woolf is just that sort of invincible work...
Nonetheless, this revival is triumphant. In the theater there are, ultimately, two kinds of drama, the quick and the dead. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? belongs articulately and terrifyingly among the quick...